All Little Silver 5th grade students & parents are invited to find community and learn about why fostering a healthy balance between real life and tech is so important to healthy development at this age. Discussion will be led by Dr. Nicole Pensak, clinical psychologist and Little Silver mom. Dr. Pensak will share the science behind the 5th grade brain as well as practical tips and tricks for finding a healthy life/tech balance. The Balance Project will also share a back-to-school family guide to support.

As parents, it can be challenging to navigate the many decisions surrounding youth sports. Join us for an informative panel discussion featuring experts in youth athletics, including a sports psychologist, former dual Division I athlete, physical therapist, veteran youth soccer coach with 20+ years of experience, and The Balance Project founder, Holly Moscatiello. Together, they'll share evidence-based insights and practical guidance to help parents make informed decisions that support their children's long-term well-being and athletic development. Our goal is for every parent to leave feeling more informed, empowered, and confident in navigating the youth sports journey.

As parents, it can be challenging to navigate the many decisions surrounding youth sports. Join us for an informative panel discussion featuring experts in youth athletics, including a sports psychologist, former dual Division I athlete, physical therapist, veteran youth soccer coach with 20+ years of experience, and The Balance Project founder, Holly Moscatiello. Together, they'll share evidence-based insights and practical guidance to help parents make informed decisions that support their children's long-term well-being and athletic development. Our goal is for every parent to leave feeling more informed, empowered, and confident in navigating the youth sports journey.

Our kids are growing up in a digital world. How can we help empower them to use tech without letting tech use them? How can we make educated decisions as parents? Want to hear from an expert? Come out to hear from Dr. Nicole Amoyal Pensak about the impact of smartphones, social media, and texting on the adolescent brain. Learn how to help our kids develop resilience skills and protect their brains with considering delay of certain tech as well as intentional usage of the tech you have — wherever your family is in your tech journey. It's never too early to prepare. It's never too late to make adjustments. Make educated decisions for your family. The presentation is for both the students and their parents to attend together. Parents of all ages of children welcome. The event is recommended for students in grades 4-8. ALL STUDENTS WHO ATTEND WILL BE GIVEN A FREE ICE CREAM CONE. Please RSVP by 9/21 so that we can be sure to have enough ice cream on hand for all our kids.

But everyone has a phone!” - what do you say when your child asks for one? How do we help our kids navigate phones, social media, gaming, and constant screen access when it feels like everyone else already has it? Join us for a casual community gathering at the clubhouse to learn more about The Balance Project, a parent-led initiative focused on helping families create a healthier balance between technology and real-world connection. We’ll walk through a short presentation covering: • What The Balance Project is and why it was created • How families can handle the pressure around getting a first phone • Practical ways to create healthier technology habits at home • How local parents can support each other instead of feeling like they’re making these decisions alone • What we can do together here in the Fort Mill community This isn’t about eliminating technology. It’s about helping our kids have more space for friendships, independence, outdoor play, sports, creativity, and family connection — while introducing technology in a more intentional way. 📍 Location: The Massey clubhouse and residence club, 1840 Felts Parkway, Fort Mill, SC 29715 📅 Date: 24Sep2026 ⏰ Time: 6pm (start the presentation at 6.30pm) Parents, grandparents, educators, coaches, and anyone interested in supporting healthier childhoods are welcome. Come meet other local parents, ask questions, and be part of building a community where families don’t have to navigate these decisions alone. Please RSVP and share with another local family who may be asking the same questions.

We invite you to the FIRST of FIVE community meetings for the 26-27 school year. Whether you've been to every meeting or haven't made it to one yet, please join us! Topics may include: - Screen reduction in schools - Smart phone alternatives - Supporting literacy in schools - Local business involvement - TBP Scarecrow - TBP initiatives - Wait Until 8th, Free Play Friday, Kids at Play signs, Balance Bags

How attached are your kids to their screens? How attached are you? How are your kids (and you!) faring with the new state law prohibiting phone use in schools? Did you make a bucket list this summer? Join us as we talk about these things and more at the latest meeting for the Long Valley Balance Project

Join the Conversation A free statewide community conversation about The Digital Delusion A teacher watches a class disappear into their Chromebooks and wonders whether the lesson would have landed better on paper. A parent reads a screen-time report from the school portal and has no idea what to do with it. Those two people should be talking to each other. That's what this is. This fall, The Balance Project- Central Virginia is hosting a six-part community conversation around Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath's The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids' Learning — and How to Help Them Thrive Again. We read about fifty pages every two weeks, meet on Zoom for an hour, and talk it through. On January 25, Dr. Horvath joins us live to answer the questions we've gathered all fall. It's free, it's open to anyone in Virginia, and you don't need to have made up your mind about technology in schools to belong here. The best conversations happen when people who see things differently actually sit down and talk it out. If you teach, or lead a school, you'll leave with: - Language for what you've been noticing: the research behind why a room goes quiet and unproductive the moment the laptops open - A clear read on what the evidence actually supports, so when a purchase or a mandate comes down you can respond with something sturdier than a hunch - Colleagues in other divisions working through the same thing. This is a statewide room, not a building-level gripe session - An hour with a Harvard-trained learning scientist who spent years teaching If you're a parent, you'll leave with: - A grounded sense of what screens are doing to learning: separate from the screen-time panic, and separate from the marketing - Specific questions to bring to your teacher, your principal, or your school board, and the confidence that they're the right ones - A much clearer picture of what teachers are actually working with, which changes how those conversations go - Company. 4,041 Virginians have signed our petitions on this. You are not the only one asking. The details - Six Monday evenings, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., on Zoom October 19 · November 2 · November 16 · December 7 · January 11 · January 25 - Free and open to anyone in Virginia - About fifty pages every two weeks — and come even if you didn't finish - You will need to obtain your own copy of the book. - Live only, never recorded, so people can say what they actually think - Register once; the same link works for all six evenings Register by October 5 and the reading schedule reaches you in time to start. After that you're still welcome — you'll just be reading a little faster.

Explore the latest kid-safe phones, watches, music players, cameras, and digital wellness tools—all in one place. Meet company representatives, compare products, and discover healthier technology solutions for your family.